In Germany it is not legal to use Google Analytics without a indication. (Heise Online [German], a serious publisher of computer magazines). Therefore I’m not longer using Google Analytics. If you are surfing on akeller’s world no data will send to Google. Anyway Google knows already too much, on the other hand Google Analytics is not really reliable. All visitors that disallow Javascript (advisable) get not traced.

Nevertheless I’m interested, why (search-query) my blog is visited. For this reason I’m using SlimStat. In the last time more and more visitors are searching for a “PhotoScape Manual”. Hence I want to link to the good screencasts on the PhotoScape-Homepage. The screencasts are without spoken words and therefore somehow multilingual. Just watch and try it by your own. If there is a specific question you can leave here a comment or use the contact-form. If I’m able I will answer.

Today I rediscovered the program PhotoScape and I like it very much.

Normally I use for retouching photos  Photoline, FixFoto and also Inkscape for special effects. But the tool PhotoScape is somehow different, it gives you all you need for a fast photo processing. Only the One-Click Option “Perfectly Clean” from FixFoto it is not able to reach. (FixFoto is shareware and for the the option “Perfectly Clean” you have to pay additional.)

Beside the editor there are additional functions:

• Picture Browser (I normally use FastStones ImageViewer, also Freeware)
• Batch-Processing, very useful for a collection of pictures
• Album, group different pictures to one, fast and easy
• Combine, like Album, combine pictures
• Gif-Animator, nice but for animated Gifs I use Beneton Movie Gif.
• Print, Index-printing
• further Colorpicker, Renamer, RAW Converter

At the Help-Pages you can take a look, there are different screen-casts available which shows you the functions. I guess also my father is able to retouch his pictures with this nice  software and I will install PhotoScape at his PC next time I’m going to visit him.

What I don’t like are the limited functions for compressing jpeg-files.

Here are some sample pictures only touched with PhotoScape, but compressed via JPEG Imager.

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Finaly I want to point to the Donate-Page of PhotoScape. If you are going to use PhotoScape much, than show your appreciation. 10$ are not that much for such a nice tool.

Some small pictures of the townhall in Dobruška.

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